- Joined
- Aug 18, 2010
- Messages
- 424
- Reaction score
- 113
- Location
- Rhondda S. Wales
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 4 national
I'm a compleat novice! So this is my problem.....Bought a nuc first week of June, They swarmed third week of July so lost queen. A local expert helped us to set up a nuc with a queen cell(sealled) and we left a sealed queen cell in the old hive. The nuc queen emerged and we now have a compleat Very busy hive, full of bees busy collecting nectar.
The old hive appeared to be queen right, but we could not find the queen.there was a lot of brood, neatly laid in the centre of one frame but it was drone brood. still no sign of a queen.We checked many times but no queen. So we purchased a new queen for the old hive. Followed the introduction instructions but 10 days after she was released there was no sign of her, but there was signs of laying workers, random patterns of eggs and brood. Soooo Should we leave the old hive die out over the winter or get a new queen( autumn has arrived very early in this part of the woods.)
Bryan
The old hive appeared to be queen right, but we could not find the queen.there was a lot of brood, neatly laid in the centre of one frame but it was drone brood. still no sign of a queen.We checked many times but no queen. So we purchased a new queen for the old hive. Followed the introduction instructions but 10 days after she was released there was no sign of her, but there was signs of laying workers, random patterns of eggs and brood. Soooo Should we leave the old hive die out over the winter or get a new queen( autumn has arrived very early in this part of the woods.)
Bryan